Dear editor,Re: Tom Fletcher column (Record, April 25).Mr. Fletcher is certainly entitled to his political viewpoint, but as a political columnist, he might want to consider getting his facts right and refraining from making blatantly misleading comments.As a retired teacher and member of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation, I take exception to his ridiculous comments in his “Imagining an NDP government” column in which he states that the BCTF is “B.C.’s third largest political party” that “extracts money from the public treasury.”He might want to explain such a silly comment, as well as explain how this union, or any other union, could possibly extract money from the government. The BCTF receives 100 per cent of its funding from its own members.The BCTF has always campaigned to have members elected to government who support public education. Why wouldn’t they?They have never promoted one political party over another. Rather, they ask voters to vote for candidates who support public education.In the days leading up to next year’s election, the BCTF will provide the public with relevant data and information on public education in B.C., and ask voters to carefully weigh this information before casting their vote.Never will your hear them advocate one candidate over another.Larry Field,Courtenay

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